by Zahra Girard
I get up from my place on the couch and go through the cupboards and cabinets in the trailer. I find a dish towel — it looks and smells clean enough — and I wet it down and toss it to Jarrett.
“Thanks,” he says, wiping himself down, then he gestures to the lycra spaceman suit. “You think you can help me put that on?”
I pick it up. It’s a ridiculous, revealing, and absolutely stupid outfit.
“I really still can’t believe you’re wearing this thing. Or singing. I never pictured you as the type.”
He laughs. “I never pictured myself as the type to want a family, either. I guess sometimes life surprises you. Besides, this singing thing ain’t so bad. After a year of it, working off my debt to the club, I kind of came to enjoy it, you know?”
I kneel down and help hold the suit steady while he steps into it. Then I help pull the tight lycra up him. Damn, this thing is revealing. Thank god for the codpiece.
“And the outfit?”
“I’ve never been one to half-ass something. It’s full-ass or nothing.”
We finish getting him into his outfit, and he stands by the couch for a moment, smiling, waiting while I clean myself up and get dressed. Together, hand in hand, we leave the trailer and step out among our family. I see so many smiling faces — the club, the old ladies, my son, and every member of the community who showed up to drink and eat and raise funds for Stony Shores. Jake — his face covered in enough barbecue sauce that he looks like a Jackson Pollock painting — runs towards us the second we appear.
Jarrett, laughing, kneels down and scoops him up in a one-armed hug. My chest is so full, it could burst.
Life may not be perfect yet, but for the first time in years, it feels like I have hope. Hope that each new day can be better than the one before it.
I don’t have to fight anymore. I don’t have to run. I don’t have to be afraid. My life has changed.
I’ve made it. I’m home.
*****THE END*****
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